SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Technical Support for BASINS, AQUATOX, and the Water Quality Standards Program
- Notice Date
- 5/25/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Cincinnati Procurement Operations Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-10-10542
- Archive Date
- 7/1/2010
- Point of Contact
- CANDICE R. CHARLTON, Contract Specialist, Phone: 513-487-2007, E-Mail: charlton.candice@epa.gov; SANDRA STARGARDT-LICIS, Placement Contracting Officer, E-Mail: licis.sandy@epa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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CANDICE R. CHARLTON
(charlton.candice@epa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking a contractor to provide technical support for the BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources) Application and the Water Quality Standards Program in support of the Standards and Health Protection Division (SHPD), under the Office of Science and Technology (OST) within EPA?s Office of Water (OW).SHPD has multiple responsibilities under the Clean Water Act of 1987 (CWA) to include directing the national program for adoption of Water Quality Standards, developing prevention and remediation strategies to reduce the risk to human health and aquatic life resulting from contaminated fish and sediment, and microbial pathogens in surface waters, providing technical support to the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program, and preparing outreach and awareness materials including developing instructional material and presenting workshops. Many of SHPD?s efforts have benefited from the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies, which captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to a location; particularly as implemented in the application known as BASINS. Over the past decade OW has managed the development of GIS technologies, capabilities, and databases to support programmatic activities. The wide availability of GIS compatible data makes it possible to provide more complete data support for many water quality and watershed models which, assess and simulate water quality and flow, by linking the GIS-based data to the models integrated in BASINS. The PC-based GIS system is designed to be used by managers and analysts who need to work with spatial data but do not need to perform the more complex GIS manipulations. EPA has used such a system with appropriate GIS data layers and models to develop the BASINS application, which is useful in assessing the integrated effects of point and nonpoint pollutants releases on water quality. BASINS provides techniques that may be used in many ways including selecting industries for study, delineating impacted aquatic ecosystems, prioritizing regulatory options, developing watershed assessments and nonpoint source controls, facilitating watershed-level National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting, and contributing to overall programmatic management.Technical support services in the following task areas will be necessary for this effort:1.Professional programming assistance for the BASINS application support and development including model interface development, model development, data compilation, and GIS technologies.2.Providing workshops, training, and logistical support specific to the various models and related computer operations3.Technical support/instruction to the users of models and modeling applications. 4.Develop methodologies and identify and obtain requisite data layers to fully support watershed assessment modeling analyses using BASINS technologies as appropriate5.Technical support for internet and intranet applications such as developing web pages/sites, updating web-based materials, and other web-based features as appropriate to the support of the BASINS list serveThe successful contractor of any resultant contract will be expected to provide all necessary labor, materials, and facilities in support of the efforts delineated by the Performance Work Statement (PWS).Solicitation PR-CI-10-10542 will appear on the internet and it may be accessed through the EPA?s home page on the World Wide Net (www.epa.gov). It is the responsibility of interested offerors to download the solicitation and any subsequent amendments from the website and to frequently check the FEDBizOpps (www.fbo.gov) or the EPA website address for updates or changes. See EPA Cincinnati website, http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd for posted draft Performance Work Statement. Be advised, Performance Work Statement changes are possible when final Request For Proposal (RFP) is released. The direct link URL for the RFP when issued is http://www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd. It is anticipated that this solicitation will be issued on or around July 1, 2010 and that proposals will be requested in 30 days after issuance of the solicitation. All responsible sources that submit a proposal will be considered by the agency. This procurement will be issued as a small business set-aside. As a reminder, small businesses are required to perform at least 50 percent of the costs of the contract performance with their own personnel (FAR 52.219-14). The Government anticipates that any future contract for these services will be an Indefinite-Delivery/ Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) type contract with a five year ordering period. Both Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee and Firm-Fixed Price task orders may be issued under any resultant contract. The applicable NAICS code is 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services) with a size standard of $7 million. Anticipated award date for this contract is March 31, 2011.The point of contact for this synopsis and subsequent solicitation is Candice Charlton, Contract Specialist, USEPA, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Mail Code: NWD 001, Cincinnati, OH 45268 who may be reached via e mail at charlton.candice@epa.gov or via telephone at (513) 487 2007.
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